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Interesting point raised in Joe Buscalia's podcast, Rick Dennison was not hired by Brandon Beane.

Hmmmm...

Oh, Lordy, our press still surprised over non-issues. Remember last year when they were shocked, shocked to find that Whaley had no authority to hire or fire a coach who reported in parallel to him, directly to the owner (something made clear from the intro presser on)?

It's SOP in the league for the coaching assistants to report directly to the coach and for the coach to have the freedom to hire and fire them. Certainly McDermott was clear on that point in the year-end presser, saying it would be his call if Dennison were terminated, 'as with all the coaching assistants and staff'

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I think they definitely need to wait and see what happens in Indy in terms of who gets hired as a HC. If they go with a defensive guy, they may want to keep Chudzinski. If they go with an offensive guy, he may be let loose. If Chudzinski is let go I think he's probably the guy, with Bevell and McCoy as possibilities as well.

I wonder, though, how much of that is "professional courtesy", not wanting to dis off one of their own in the national media.

I still think that call was a case of smart coaches overthinking and outsmarting themselves. Dance with the guy who brung ya.

I don't know who did what. Who called what. Whose covering for who. All I know is Dennison, who I don't want to keep, calls an RPO that involves the pass play to Benjamin and a lot of people were P.O.'d because they thought a run should have been called. I know it was a RPO and ultimately it's Taylor who makes that decision but Dennison could have called for strictly a run play instead. Then you have Bevell who supposedly called a pass play when just about everyone thought a run should have been called. To my knowledge, that was not a RPO play. I'm just not sure if hiring Bevell is the right move if he's susceptible to making the same types of calls. I don't know all that much about his play calling abilities. Likely better than Dennison. It would be interesting to know if a better QB would have made the same decision. Taylor chose to go pass rather than run on the Benjamin end zone play but Shady was playing pretty damn good. Maybe he should have a try or two to punch it in.

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the problems with getting cute in the redzone didn't just start this last sunday

Dennison's play calling was putrid in the red zone pretty much all year.

Tyrod also sucks in the red zone. You need to be able to throw balls in tight windows that get much tighter down inside the 20. You also need to be able to throw guys open with anticipation. He's terrible at both of those things. As much as Peterman sucked, he actually completed a great fade on the goaline in the snow. Tyrod can't make that throw.

Did his play calling suck because he was limited by his quarterback? I hope we never find out because they both need to get kicked to the curb.

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Dennison's play calling was putrid in the red zone pretty much all year.

Tyrod also sucks in the red zone. You need to be able to throw balls in tight windows that get much tighter down inside the 20. You also need to be able to throw guys open with anticipation. He's terrible at both of those things. As much as Peterman sucked, he actually completed a great fade on the goaline in the snow. Tyrod can't make that throw.

Did his play calling suck because he was limited by his quarterback? I hope we never find out because they both need to get kicked to the curb.

You do realize that last year our Offense was among the top in the league in Red Zone scoring, right?

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Dennison's play calling was putrid in the red zone pretty much all year.

Tyrod also sucks in the red zone. You need to be able to throw balls in tight windows that get much tighter down inside the 20. You also need to be able to throw guys open with anticipation. He's terrible at both of those things. As much as Peterman sucked, he actually completed a great fade on the goaline in the snow. Tyrod can't make that throw.

Did his play calling suck because he was limited by his quarterback? I hope we never find out because they both need to get kicked to the curb.

redzone offense last year was top 10 if i'm not mistaken. don't mistake that as me making excuses for taylor.... but dennison has to be held accountable for that decline.

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You do realize that last year our Offense was among the top in the league in Red Zone scoring, right?

5 minutes ago, Stank_Nasty said:

redzone offense last year was top 10 if i'm not mistaken. don't mistake that as me making excuses for taylor.... but dennison has to be held accountable for that decline.

Yep I'm with you guys. i think we were great in the redzone because of the scheme. Designing a red zone offense around Tyrod makes sense. Having him throw fades does not.

I know I'm talking in circles, I guess the bottom line is that Dennison sucks and Tyrod can be good with a really strong run game and an offense that plays to his strengths. But he cannot be sucessful in the red zone in a more conventional WCO.